PARK KEITO (KOTOMI NISHIWIWAKI Y MIQUEL CASAPONSA). NEW(A) DAYS
A set of scenes that explore the different forms of communication and daily rituals to construct states and landscapes ranging from pure contemplation to moments of an almost apocalyptic nature. A woman on stage going through different states of empowerment and of relationship and symbiosis with nature. A combination of presence and questioning the possibilities of abstraction and poetics. Events that follow one another in crescendo to place the spectator within a journey where the body’s perceptual experience evolves, leaving it open to an imaginative exchange.
Kotomi Nishiwaki is a Japanese performance artist and choreographer. After studying at P.A.R.T.S, in Belgium, she has been collaborating with and working for Anzu Furukawa, João Fiadeiro, Abraham Hurtado and Meg Stuart/Damaged Goods, among others.
Miquel Casaponsa studied interior architecture and music in Barcelona and Brussels. He composes and improvises with guitar and field recordings, and creates sounds for installations and performance art with Brendan Dougherty, Monia Montal, Ana Konjetsky, Giovanni Di Domenico, Charo Calvo and João Lima, among others.
Park Keito is the association that brings together the work of Kotomi Nishiwaki and Miquel Casaponsa, as well as collaborations with other artists. Their interests and topics of research converge in different disciplines, such as performance, sound and visual arts. Their performances and installations play with the body and objects, contrasting artificial and fictitious landscapes with organic soundscapes and kinetic movement. Park Keito is based in Barcelona.
JORIS LACOSTE. EN TU NOMBRE (‘IN YOUR NAME’)
Quim Pujol invited me to address the people of Móstoles. As I can’t speak Spanish, the question of translation arose. As it so happens, Quim Pujol is a professional interpreter, and he offered to simultaneously translate my speech, as he would for a head of state: “I’ll speak in your name; I’ll spread your word,” he said, assuringly. It immediately occurred to me how much I could benefit from such a pledge of allegiance.
Joris Lacoste has been a writer for theatre and radio since 1996 and has been creating and performing his own shows since 2003: 9 Lyriques pour une actrice et une caisse claire, in 2005; Purgatoire, in 2007; and Le vrai spectacle, in 2011. In 2004, he founded the collective research project W. He was an associate author at the Théâtre de la Colline from 2006 to 2007. From 2007 to 2009, he was co-director of the Laboratoires d'Aubervilliers. In 2007, he founded the collectiveEncyclopédie de la parole, as part of which he created the shows Parlement (2009), Suite n°1 (2013), Suite n°2 (2015), Suite n°3 (2017), Suite n°4 (2020), blablabla (2017) and Jukebox (2019). Encyclopédie de la parole has performed around the world and a Portrait was especially dedicated to them as part of the Festival d’Automne, held in Paris in 2020. Joris Lacoste has also created numerous performance art pieces and has participated in several exhibitions in museums and art centres. He has also translated three Shakespeare plays for the director Gwénaël Morin.
NOELA COVELO. QSIPTI
How do you make a song work? How do you know exactly when the voice comes into the track? The performance/concert is a solo divided into capsules, songs or verses. In this work, I focus on the physical and spatial elements that tell me where I’m supposed to be on the concert stage at the precise moment when I come into contact with the audience. I breathe in and out, I introduce myself, and I gradually add voices that blend into the pre-recorded tracks or diverge from each other, in a measured way, and I recalculate over and over again the distance between me and the audience.
Noela Covelo Velasco (Pontevedra, 1994) has lived and worked in Barcelona since 2012. She has performed at La biennale du réel, Data Rhei, (Paris, 2017), the Pontevedra Museum (Pontevedra, 2019), Àngels Barcelona for Loop City Festival (Barcelona, 2020), Dilalica (Barcelona, 2021), Bombon Projects for Art Nou (Barcelona, 2022), Centre Maristany (Sant Cugat, 2022), Tortosa Museum as part of Xarxa Transversal (Tortosa, 2022), Fundació Joan Brossa (Barcelona, 2022) and CLUBS (Barcelona 2022). She presented the performance art piece QSIPT I at Centre d’Arts Santa Mónica as part of the So i cos programme (Barcelona, 2022), at Bombon Projects art gallery (Barcelona, 2022), Centre Arbar (Girona, 2022) and at CLUBS (Barcelona, 2022). She is a co-founder of the 101 collective, co-founder of the Choro pedagogical experimentation environment (Foc, Barcelona) and a member of the Cascades study group.
On this occasion, Noela Covelo is collaborating with Un coro amateur (‘An Amateur Choir’), a vocal and aural creative project of CA2M. On alternate Thursdays for the past six years, the choir has been coming together for investigative sessions of its own and sessions with guest artists in which to embrace all the sounds in the universe.
https://noelacovelovelasco.net/
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